Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s Research Studies

by Allen, Thomas J.; Scott Morton, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9780195068061
• ISBN10: 0195068068
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

One of the most pathbreaking and influential business books of the 1990s is The Corporation of the 1990s by Michael Scott Morton. Its expert view of how information technology would influence organizations and their ability to survive and prosper in the 1990s has become the benchmark of thinking about information technology. Now, in a supporting companion volume, Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s makes available the research on which The Corporation of the 1990s was based. The research was conducted at the Sloan School of Management at MIT by the Management in the 1990s program. The program was funded by a group of 12 industrial and government sponsors from the United States and Britain which included American Express, Digital Equipment Corporation, Eastman Kodak, British Petroleum, MCI Communications, General Motors, U.S. Army, ICL Ltd., Internal Revenue Service, Ernst & Young, BellSouth, and CIGNA Corporation. Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s aims to disseminate ideas on how organizations can manage the impact of information technology, and also to raise issues and stimulate further thought by both academics and professionals. The book is divided into three sections which cover the information technology revolution, strategic options, and organization and management responses. It incorporates the work of many important scholars including Charles Jonscher, Michael J. Piore, Thomas W. Malone. JoAnne Yates, Robert I. Benjamin, Gary W. Loveman, Eric von Hippel, Edgar H. Schein, Stanley M. Besen, Garth Saloner, N. Venkatraman, Akbar Zaheer, John C. Henderson, Jay C. Cooprider, Kevin Crowston, Jeongsuk Koh, Gordon Walker, Laura Poppo, John S. Carroll, Constance Perin, Brian T. Pentland, John Chalykoff, Lotte Bailyn, D. Eleanor Westney, Sumantra Ghoshal, John D.C. Little, Thomas J. Allen, Oscar Hauptman, Lisa M. Lynch, Paul Osterman, Thomas A. Kochan, and John Paul MacDuffie.

Author Biography

Thomas J. Allen and Michael Scott Morton are both Professors of Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

The Information Technology Revolution

An Economic Study of the Information Revolution

Corporate Reform in American Manufacturing and the Challenge to Economic Theory

Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies

An Assesment of the Productivity Impact of Information Technologies

Determining User Needs for Novel Information-based Products and Services

Innovative Cultures and Organizations

Strategic Options

Compatibility Standards and the Market for Telecommunications Services

Electronic Integration and Strategic Advantage: A Quasi-Experimental Study in the Insurance Industry

Strategic Alignment: A Model for Organizational Transformation via Information Technology

Dimensions of IS Planning and Design Aids: A Functional Model of CASE Technology

Information Technology and Work Organization

Joint Venture Formations and Stock Market Reactions: An Assessment in the Information Technology Sector

Profit Centers, Single-Source Suppliers, and Transaction Costs

The Organization and Management Response

The Role of the CEO in the Management of Change: The Case of Information Technology

How Expectations About Microcomputers Influence Their Organizational Consequences

End User Computing in the Internal Revenue Service

Computer-aided Monitoring: Its Influence on Employee Job Satisfaction and Turnover

Toward the Perfect Work Place? The Experience of Home-based Systems Developers

Building a Competitor Intelligence Organization: Adding Value in an Information Functin

Information Technology in Marketing

The Influence of Communication Technologies on Organizational Structure: A Conceptual Model for Future Research

Technological Innovation and Employment in Telecommunications

Employment Security at DEC: Sustaining Values amid Environmental Change, Thomas A. Kochan

Contributors

Index

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